Open Education Week

OER World Map Live Demo (OEWeek Live!)
2025-02-25 09:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
In our first pre-Open Education Week Live session, Alan Levine is joined by Susanne Grimm of OERInfo to show how this year we are collaborating to increase the coverage on the OER World Map.
This early collaborative effort to map the world of open education peopler, organizations, projects, and services has been revitalized with the support of OERInfo. We are asking participants on Open Education Week to add themselves, their institutions, policies, and other relevant items to the map .
We will show you how to join the OER World Map, affiliate yourself with your organization and with OEGlobal / Open Education Week. Then we will see how to add new items to the map and the many ways in which the map can be used as a searchable / filterable dynamic database of open education globally.
This session is meant to have a how to reference available as we invite you to be part of the efforts to share assets for Open Education Week through the OER World Map.
Watch live and ask questions via chat or watch the recoding later.
For more, see:

OER World Map https://oerworldmap.org/
OERInfo https://open-educational-resources.de/
Adding Assets to the OER World Map for Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/assets/oer-worldmap/
Items added to the Map for OEWeek 2025 https://oerworldmap.org/resource/?language=en&filter.about.keywords=%5B%22oeweek25%22%5D

Watch to learn how you can both user the OER World Map and make it that much better by adding information to it

Panel: Using LibreTexts for Your Chemistry Courses
2025-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join instructors Lisa Sharpe Elles (Kansas State University) and Sheba Kuruvilla (Mt. San Jacinto Community College) as they answer questions from participants about how they use LibreTexts in their Chemistry courses.

Welcome to the LibreTexts “LibreVerse”
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as we introduce you to the LibreTexts project.
We will guide you through each component of what we refers to as the greater “LibreVerse” including: the LibreTexts repository, home to over a million pages of OER content; our state of the art Remixer that allows you to take any content in the repository and remix it into something new for your course; LibreTexts project management platform, Conductor, and Workbench tool to help keep your projects and teams organized and on track; our open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT; and much, much more.

Introduction to LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he gives you an inside look at LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. Participants will get a firsthand, guided tour on how ADAPT is changing the game when it comes to homework platforms in higher education. Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is free for all California instructors and students. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.

Connecting the Opens: A Panel Discussion for the Future Professoriate
2025-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Join the Virginia Tech University Libraries and invited guests for a discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty will provide brief overviews of open publishing, open educational resources, and open data to provide some general information on the topics.
Guest presenter, Dr. Laura Neser, Department of Geosciences will discuss her work adapting openly-licensed content into the first and second editions of Introduction to Earth Science. Presenters will discuss how aspects of open have impacted their career development as well as how they have incorporated open practices into their research and scholarship, and the audience will be invited to participate in the robust conversation. All are welcome!

Introduction to LibreTexts Commons&Conductor Platform
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as we introduce you to our Commons & Conductor platform. A multi-functional platform that provides enhanced searching capabilities across all of LibreTexts over one million page of openly licensed content via the Commons, as well as a project management platform that provides a gathering point for all of your authors to share, search, and remix OER developed and curated by your community in the Conductor. And speaking of community, you can use the Conductor to plan, collaborate, and manage OER efforts across your campus. And best of all: it’s completely free!

Introduction to Building Courses in LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he gives you a firsthand look at how to build courses in LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is free for all California instructors and students. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Wikis – Kiwix Demonstration
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online from Multiple Locations
How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first?

Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.
In this OEWeek25 special, following the January edition of WikiAfrica Hour: Offline Wikis, we invite Offline Wiki experts to demonstrate their offline solution. We hope this will make one of the many steps towards offline—the decision phase—easier by showing what you should expect from this platform before you spend hours setting up the hardware, sourcing to the right offline platform, downloading it, and then adding it to your hardware.
In the hot seat for this session is:
✔️ Stephane Coillet-Matillon, who will demonstrate Kiwix

Exploring the Dubai Declaration on OER: Advancing Global Access to Knowledge
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | UNESCO Dynamic Coalition, Paris, France
This webinar will explore how emerging technologies and open-source tools are reshaping Open Educational Resources (OER). In light of the Dubai Declaration on OER and its complementary role to the UNESCO 2019 Recommendation on OER, the webinar will delve into open licensing frameworks, overcoming barriers and scaling innovations globally—especially within regions like the Pacific region.
The speakers will share concrete examples, policy insights, and regional perspectives to inspire stakeholders and guide future developments in open education.
Objectives:

Raise awareness of the Dubai Declaration and its role in advancing the UNESCO 2019 Recommendation on OER.
Examine the transformative potential of emerging technologies in creating, curating, and disseminating OER.
Showcase regional examples and case studies to illustrate how the Dubai Declaration can be operationalized locally and globally.

Speakers:

Dr Javiera Atenas, Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching Enhancement, University of Suffolk, United Kingdom
Dr Wayne Mackintosh, UNESCO Chair in OER, Director OER Foundation, New Zealand
Ms Anne-Marie Scott, Director Anne-Marie Scott Consulting Inc. and board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

Wikiwijs, Wonderous Stories
2025-03-05 12:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Malden, Malden, None, Netherlands
You want to be involved in a plan for a programme like Wikiwijs…’. So says the first sentence in the foreword to the Wikiwijs 2009-2011 programme plan, written by the chairman of the programme’s steering group, Fred Mulder. On 13 December 2009, the Wikiwijs website was launched at a meeting in Breda. This (school) year therefore marks the 15th anniversary of Wikiwijs.
But before that launch could take place, a lot had already happened. How did the idea of Wikiwijs actually originate? How did the Wikiwijs programme come about? Which activities were carried out during the five years of the programme? What was the ultimate outcome? And what lessons can we learn from it?
In two blogs, Ben Janssen and Robert Schuwer will answer these questions. We do so because much can be learned from 15 years of working on OERs. In our view, the approach Wikiwijs took is, although 15 years ago, still valuable for current initiatives. Especially the role the Dutch government played is particularly interesting.
The first blog post is already published last Friday. On Wednesday, around noon (GMT+1), we aim to publish the second blog post. Both blogs are written in Dutch, but translating online on the fly is of course possible.

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Wikis – Internet in a Box Demonstration
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online from Multiple Locations
How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first?

Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.
In this OEWeek25 special, following the January edition of WikiAfrica Hour: Offline Wikis, we invite Offline Wiki experts to demonstrate their offline solution. We hope this will make one of the many steps towards offline—the decision phase—easier by showing what you should expect from this platform before you spend hours setting up the hardware, sourcing to the right offline platform, downloading it, and then adding it to your hardware.
In the hot seat for this session is:
✔️ Tim Moody, who will demonstrate Internet in a Box

Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities (Hybrid Seminar)
2025-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Join us for an afternoon of talks exploring Wikimedia in the curriculum, Scottish history and historical data (accused witches and religious change in early modern Scotland) and opening up the collections of the National Library of Wales!
Wikibase is the underlying platform that powers Wikipedia’s sister project, Wikidata, and as an open source platform, it allows users to create their own version of Wikidata with their own field names while still being able to connect to and leverage data from Wikidata. As such, it offers more quality control and bespoke opportunities for collections and research dataset holders.
Data skills for all!
As part of our ongoing mission to support our open knowledge and data skills commitments, this HYBRID seminar ( REMOTE participation available!) will build on prior learning and past seminars hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS) in 2019.
We see this seminar as our next logical opportunity to support teaching and learning at the University at a time of curriculum transformation. The University has developed a framework for future skills in the curriculum to include data skills for all. This seminar will showcase a number of case studies of how Wikipedia and Wikidata have been included as curriculum elements in teaching and the impact that can have on students working on large and open data sets.
Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales, will expound on how the National Library has shared its collections as linked open data to Wikidata over the last eight years (including the opportunities and benefits of doing so) AND will also showcase their new SNARC Wikibase (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru) to ensure they can leverage the vast amount of complementary data in Wikidata through federated queries but also now have both a controlled vocabulary and access control for their authority records.
Dr. Chris Langley, The Open University, is a historian working with Wikibase to create a database of the General Assemblies of Scotland following his Wikidata work on the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project.
SCHEDULE:

3:00 pm – 3:10pm: Welcome from Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.
3:10 pm – 3:25pm: ‘Wikidata in the Curriculum’ – Ewan McAndrew will preface our two guest speakers with a general introduction to student work with Wikidata assignments including the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland project and Tower Block Archive.
3:25 pm – 3:35pm: ‘Mapping Religious Change in Early Modern Scotland’ – Dr. Chris Langley (The Open University) will introduce the ways in which Wikibase Cloud can be used to structure historical data. In particular, the talk will explore how to use Wikibase and LeafletJS alongside textual sources relating to seventeenth-century Scotland.
3.35 pm – 4.00pm: ‘Wikibase for Name Authority at the National Library of Wales‘ – Jason Evans (National Library of Wales) on the modest goal of creating a knowledge graph of all Welsh cultural heritage data. Learn how NLW’s Wikibase is helping them take their first steps. The talk will highlight the benefits of using Wikibase alongside Wikidata to build a linked network of entities across multiple collections.
4:00pm – 4:10pm: ‘Wikimedia in Education: Booklet of Case Studies (v2.0)’ – Satu Kapiainen (Information Services, University of Edinburgh) will showcase the new edition of our booklet of 21 case studies of how Wikimedia is being used as a form of learning technology in UK education.
4:10 pm – 4:30pm: – Q&A with all the speakers.
4:30pm – 5pm:- Tea and coffee and general mingling/discussion.
5pm: Thanks and event close.

Zoom link for remote attendance
Wikibase for Name Authority at the National Library of Wales (Jason Evans)
With the modest goal of creating a knowledge graph of all Welsh cultural heritage data, learn how our Wikibase is helping us take our first steps. The talk will highlight the benefits of using Wikibase alongside Wikidata to build a linked network of entities across multiple collections.
Speaker bio
Jason Evans is the Open Data Manager and Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales. Working at the intersection of access policy, data science and digital engagement Evans aims to make cultural heritage collections more accessible and discoverable through new policy and practice.
Mapping Religious Change in Early Modern Scotland (Dr. Chris Langley)
This talk will introduce the ways in which Wikibase Cloud can be used to structure historical data. In particular, the talk will explore how to use Wikibase and LeafletJS alongside textual sources relating to seventeenth-century Scotland.
Speaker bio
Dr. Chris Langley is a historian of early modern religious culture, especially in Scotland: he wants “to understand how people in the past experienced religion and how it fit into their lives”. Chris uses digital techniques, including open linked data, to understand religious change. His current research project explores the Scottish General Assemblies between 1638 and 1653.
Map of Accused Witches of Scoland v2.0 – a student project 5 years in the making
Year on year, students on the Design Informatics MA/MFA programme derived meaningful learning experiences through engaging practically with data skills and Scottish accused witches to support course learning outcomes. Our open data Map of Accused Witches in Scotland project (2019) then helped surface data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, as linked open data and provided five student interns with rich learning opportunities to geolocate all the historic placenames mentioned and put the individual human stories behind the data on the map for the first time, allowing them to be explored as never before. For five years, this resource has helped raise awareness of, and discourse about, the Scottish witch trials (1563-1736) at a national and international level and been utilised by school pupils, teachers, researchers, authors, historians, journalists, and members of the public all around the world; demonstrating the interest in, and benefits of, such work.
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, will provide a brief overview of the project’s creation and highlight the contributions of everyone involved.
Who is this event for?
Humanities students, Informatics and Computer Science students, the CDCS past attendees, AI researchers, Data researchers, attendees from our 100 strong launch event for the Map of Accused Witches v2 launch, Library and University Collections staff, National Library of Scotland metadata staff, Informatics staff etc.
Anyone interested in the possibilities of staff and students sharing data to Wikidata and/or creating their own collection/research database in Wikibase.
An open data future?
If our Map of Accused Witches project could be considered Open Data ‘Project A’ then ‘Project B’ has been the Dr. Chris Langley’s work on Mapping the Scottish Reformation site which explores the Scottish clergy during the 16th and 18th century: where they were employed, how they moved around, where they were educated and more.
Both the Map of Accused Witches and Mapping the Scottish Reformation projects demonstrated the usefulness for students & researchers of taking the hitherto de facto print resources, The Sourcebook of Witchcraft by Christina Larner and the Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, for the exploring of the Scottish Witch Trials and the Scottish Reformation respectively and updating, improving and augmenting these resources as digital tools using linked open data on a sustainable platform AND providing students with much needed opportunities for learning of digital and data skills – both through practical coursework and through internship opportunities.
Both of these projects showcased their initial ideas in CDCS seminars in 2019. And both have moved on in the last five years considerably, especially given discussions on data quality, maintaining the data, controlling access to the data and the usefulness of high quality of data for LLMs/artificial intelligence.
So a final outcome would be to see Open Data ‘Project C’, ‘Project D’, ‘Project E’ etc. etc. to build on the learning from the Map of Accused Witches project and Mapping the Scottish Reformation and provide more opportunities for students to learn data skills through practical engagement with research and collections datasets… and with Scottish history.

Introducing LibreTexts Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
LibreTexts Academy is here! Join Director of Curriculum Innovation and Development, Justin Shorb, for an introduction to our Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development. From year long cohorts to asynchronous webinars, Academy has something for all of the open education advocates and practitioners on your campus.
Be sure to fill out our interest form before attending available at https://libretexts.org/academy.

Introduction to Remixing OER with LibreTexts
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as we show you how to use our state of the art Remixer to remix existing OER. With an easy to use drag and drop functionality, and over a million pages of content from which to choose, we think you’ll agree the LibreTexts Remixer can help you take your OER to the next level.

Webinar: Izradio/la sam multimedijski sadržaj za nastavu i što sada?
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Zagreb) | SRCE – University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Josipa Marohnića 5, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
Multimedija je dio većine e-kolegija, omogućava nastavniku i studentima da jasnije i jednostavnije predstave određenu tematiku ili problem, da se može više puta pogledati i proučiti i da vizualno prikaže ono što sami tekst često ne može dočarati.
No kada nastavnik izradi neki video zapis, animaciju, podcast ili sliku često ne zna kako ili ne zna dovoljno da na pravilan način postavi taj sadržaj u svoj e-kolegij.
U ovom webinaru pokazat ćemo kako postaviti izrađeni multimedijski sadržaj kao otvoreni obrazovni sadržaj kako bi se zaštitila autorska prava, kako ga postaviti u e-kolegij na Merlinu na pravilan način i zašto ga treba postaviti u repozitorij ustanove na sustavu Dabar.
Predavanje će održati djelatnici Srca, a svakako ostavljamo prostor i za pitanja sudionika.
Webinar je namijenjen nastavnicima, prvenstveno u sustavu visokog obrazovanja i svima zainteresiranima.
Pridružite nam se i provjerite kako pravilno postaviti izrađeni multimedijski sadržaj u e-kolegij.
Predavači: Domagoj Horvatović, Dominik Kenđel i Ljiljana Jertec Musap, Srce
Moderatorica: doc. dr. sc. Sandra Kučina Softić, Srce

Vrijeme i mjesto održavanja: 6. 3. 2025. od 11 do 12:30 sati, putem sustava za webinare

DigiPedia: Facilitating Flexible Curriculum Development
2025-03-06 12:30 - 13:45 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Let’s celebrate the Day 4 of OE week 2025 at TU Delft by joining us for a community lunch and an interactive session designed to discover how innovative tools like DigiPedia can increase the flexibility of your curriculum design and inspire your teaching.

Event Details:
Date: 6th March
Time: 1230-1345 hrs.
Location: Blue Room, TU Delft library
Includes Lunch

Session Highlights:

Presentation: Explore modern approaches to curriculum innovation.
Interactive Session: Share insights, brainstorm ideas, and gain inspiration to enhance your courses.

If you’re looking to integrate open education practices into your curriculum design or want to learn new approaches to innovation in education, this session is for you!

Beyond Mandates: Fostering a Culture of Open Access Book Publishing
2025-03-06 12:30 - 13:45 (Europe/London) | University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Attempts to incentivise open access for books have, to date, largely centred around policy interventions that mandate publication in open formats and venues. Today we have OA book policies from funders in the UK, Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Ireland, and Portugal; and the Council of the EU has said that for publicly funded research, open access should be “the norm” for monographs as well as articles.
But the big stick of mandates can be a blunt instrument and very often add a heavy compliance burden on scholars and HE institutions. A more effective and lasting avenue to OA for books might be to embed open research and publishing cultures within universities and more widely. But currently, HEIs often incentivise closed access publishing (deliberately or passively) by cleaving to the status quo in terms of recognising career advancement and in terms of publishing venues and how those venues are supported. How might this paradigm be shifted towards openness?
This session will feature short presentations from expert scholars, librarians and publishers, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. We will address these central questions: how can we incentivise researchers to publish their books OA? How can institutions signal more strongly that publishing openly should be important, and reward those who do so? How might a culture of open research be fostered within and beyond the book publishing process?
Changing the way the sector approaches reward and recognition for scholars could be a big driver for change in open access book publishing – going beyond mandates to offer positive reasons to embrace openness.
Join us for this online event, presented in partnership by Copim and the Knowledge Equity Network. Featuring contributions from guest speakers, Lucy Barnes (Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator, Open Book Publishers), Gavin Beattie (Associate Director: Research & Impact, Libraries & Collections, King’s College London), Jill Claassen (Section Manager, Scholarly Communication & Research, University of Cape Town), Kevin Sanders (Open Access Engagement Lead, Open Book Collective) and Chaired by Sally Dalton (Head of Library Research Services: Open Research, University of Leeds).

Répertoires de REL : un levier pour repenser l’accès et la collaboration en formation professionnelle
2025-03-06 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cette discussion invite les responsables de programmes de formation à réfléchir aux impacts de programmes de développement professionnel s’appuyant sur l’éducation ouverte pour valoriser des pratiques pédagogiques et de gestion des répertoires de contenus ouverts qui visent à élargir l’accès à l’apprentissage, particulièrement dans une approche de création, de réutilisation et de partage de ressources et connaissances. Au cœur des réflexions : les stratégies de mobilisation de création de ressources éducatives libres à eCampusOntario et Camerise auprès des responsables de formation et développement professionnel dans le domaine de l’enseignement du français.
Cette discussion permettra d’explorer les avantages et défis liés à la formation en éducation ouverte et l’utilisation des REL pour le développement professionnel en général. Dans un deuxième temps, une réflexion consacrée aux impacts de collaborations interinstitutionnelles pour fédérer la culture de l’ouverture entre les responsables de programmes de formation dans les conseils scolaires et au post-secondaire.
Objectif : Les participant.e.s auront l’opportunité de:

Explorer les avantages/désavantages de l’utilisation de répertoires tel que la Bibliothèque libre d’eCampusOntario et Camerise pour la découvrabilité et l’accès aux (REL) co-conceptualisées par des auteur.e.s sur le continuum M-12-Postsecondaire.
Réfléchir à comment mesurer l’impact de l’utilisation des ressources éducatives libres (REL) dans les programmes de formation en FLS/FLA

eCampusOntario Open Library Forum on Affordability
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | eCampusOntario, 372 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join the eCampusOntario Open Library team in an open discussion on Affordability, Open Education, and Low-cost designations in higher education. We’ll be presenting some findings on affordability initiatives across Ontario’s post-secondary sector and spotlighting efforts at various institutions across the province. Participants will be able to help co-design the future of affordability and sustainability, with an eye towards finding common definitions and shared languages to ensure OER and other resources can support keeping post secondary education affordable for all learners.

Joignez-vous à l’équipe de la bibliothèque ouverte eCampusOntario dans une discussion ouverte sur l’abordabilité, l’éducation ouverte et les désignations à faible coût dans le domaine de l’enseignement supérieur. Nous présenterons certaines conclusions sur les initiatives en matière d’abordabilité dans le secteur postsecondaire de l’Ontario et mettrons en lumière les efforts déployés dans divers établissements de la province. Les participants pourront prendre part à la conception participative de l’avenir de l’abordabilité et de la durabilité. L’objectif : trouver des définitions et des langages communs afin que les REL et d’autres ressources puissent contribuer à maintenir l’enseignement postsecondaire à un niveau abordable pour tous les apprenants.

Leveraging LibreTexts and OER to Design AI-Enhanced Assignments
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join Ly-Huong Pham, Evergreen Valley College, as she discusses how LibreTexts’ remixing capabilities help faculty design assignments that integrate AI while fostering student engagement and critical thinking.
By seamlessly combining different OERs or chapters, educators can create flexible learning experiences that encourage deeper inquiry. She will share insights from her experience working with students, highlighting their challenges, responses, and lessons learned.

Harold Washington College's OER Initiative
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
In 2023, Harold Washington College received a grant to find and/or create OER for high-enrollment courses. This presentation discusses what we learned during the process and showcases some of the modules our professors created and curated using LibreTexts. Presenters are Todd Heldt, Carolyn Stevenson, Rosie Banks, and Jack Lindsay.

CESI Open Café: Developing CESI's Digital Archive
2025-03-06 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Computers in Education Society of Ireland, Castletown Geoghegan, Ireland
In our special Open Education Week 2025 Open Café, Mags Amond and Kate Molloy from the CESI Executive will reflect on CESI’s recent Digital Repository of Ireland Community Archive Scheme Award, and share their plans to digitise and ingest CESI’s newsletters from the 1980s to early 2010s that document professional development activities, advancements, events, and research in technology in education in Ireland.
This session will outline the application process, vision for the future, and progress so far. We invite CESI members from all eras to contribute to this conversation, and to share ephemera for the archive. It is open to all, and we would welcome the opportunity to hear from other organisations or groups creating and/or maintaining open digital archives.

Share your work with HARVEST
2025-03-06 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
HARVEST is USask’s Institutional Repository, supporting USask staff, students, and facility in sharing research outputs, open educational resources, and more. Learn how HARVEST can support you in sharing your work and making it easier to discover and re-use, including our new HARVEST Upload Service.

Check H5P accessibility and more - CARETAKER
2025-03-07 10:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Oslo) | Skien, SKIEN, Telemark, Norway
We are excited to introduce the H5P Caretaker, a valuable tool designed to help you assess your H5P files for accessibility, licensing, and usability issues. This initiative is the result of a collaborative effort between Oliver Tacke and NDLA.
Please note that the H5P Caretaker is still in development, and we welcome your feedback to help us improve the service. The initial version is fully operational and available for you to test during this web conference.
As adherence to accessibility standards becomes increasingly vital, it’s essential that we equip ourselves with the right tools and resources to streamline this process. The H5P Caretaker aims to make your experience as seamless and up-to-date as possible.
We invite you to explore the H5P Caretaker with us!
Read more about the technical implementation
Presenters:

Jan Frode Lindsø
Oliver Tacke
Knut Inge Skifjeld

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons – Arabic
2025-03-07 15:00 - 16:00 (Africa/Lagos) | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation.
The training will be delivered in Arabic language.

AI Literacies for Open Educators: An Exploration
2025-03-07 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Online from Multiple Locations
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming education, bringing both opportunities and challenges for open educators. This interactive workshop, hosted by Dr Doug Belshaw and Dr Angela Gunder, explores a plurality of “AI Literacies” for understanding and applying AI within open education.
Drawing from the recently-published paper– part of MIT’s AI and Open Education Initiative– AI Literacies and the Advancement of Opened Culture: Global Perspectives and Practices, the session will provide a structured introduction to AI literacies. The hosts will then guide participants through a discussion around the ethical, technical, and pedagogical implications for open educators using generative AI.
Finally, participants will be encouraged to add any relevant openly-licensed resources to an open access repository.
Key takeaways for participants:

A practical understanding of AI literacies as they apply to open education.
An approach to help co-create definitions and frameworks relating to AI literacies in specific contexts.
Access to an open repository of AI and open education resources.

In the Living Room with the Open Education Network and MIT OpenCourseWare – Two Highlighted Resources
2025-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Join us as we talk about two open educational resources: 1) Data Analysis for Social Scientists offered by MIT OpenCourseWare and 2) Accessible Appalachia by Lisa Day and Jacob Johnson, which can be found in the Open Education Network’s Open Textbook Library.
While we will focus on just one resource each, we will highlight how these publications are a reflection of the diversity of our collections. In order to share the work of our organizations and what that looks like, we will take a brief tour of each resource, including author profiles and/or instructor priorities. We will also meet people involved in their production, and talk about how the materials evolved through the publication process. Our goals for the conversation are to celebrate and highlight two openly available resources and the people involved in creating and sharing them. Attendees will gain an introduction to the Open Education Network’s Open Textbook Library and to MIT OpenCourseWare’s course materials, and have the opportunity to discuss open educational publications with others.
Speakers:

Karen Lauritsen, Open Education Network – Senior Director, Publishing
Bailey Lake, Eastern Kentucky University – Assistant University Librarian
Shira Segal, MIT OpenCourseWare – Collaborations and Engagement Manager
Cheryl Siegel, MIT OpenCourseWare – Publication Manager and Social Media Coordinator

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons - English
2025-03-07 17:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Lagos) | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation.
This training will be presented in English.

Open Microbiology: Building Global Learning Communities Through the OpenStax Microbiology Ancillaries Project
2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
The OpenStax Microbiology Ancillaries (OSMA) Project is an innovative open education initiative that brings together educators, researchers, and students to develop high-quality, openly licensed learning resources for microbiology. This project enhances accessibility, fosters inclusivity, and empowers both students and instructors with adaptable, freely available educational materials in the ADAPT homework system and H5P/LibreTexts Studio.
This presentation will highlight the international collaboration at the heart of OSMA, featuring insights from Ying Liu, biology professor at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and visiting scholar at the University of Dundee, and her team of students in San Francisco and Dundee, Scotland. Together, we will explore how cross-border teamwork enriches resource development, ensuring diverse perspectives and global relevance.
Students from both institutions will share their experiences as co-creators, reflecting on the impact of open education on their learning, professional growth, and sense of community. Their voices will illuminate how participation in OER projects enhances scientific literacy, collaboration skills, and engagement with real-world microbiology applications.
By showcasing OSMA’s student-driven, equity-focused approach, this session will inspire educators and institutions to embrace open education and foster meaningful learning experiences through international partnerships.

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons - French
2025-03-07 18:00 - 19:00 (Africa/Lagos) | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation.
This training will be presented in French.
